Temperature determination from the lattice gas model
Sep, 1996Citations per year
Abstract:
Determination of temperature from experimental data has become important in searches for critical phenomena in heavy ion collisions. Widely used methods are ratios of isotopes (which rely on chemical and thermal equilibrium), population ratios of excited states etc. Using the lattice gas model we propose a new observable: where is the charge multiplicity and is the charge of the fragmenting system. We show that the reduced multiplicity is a good measure of the average temperature of the fragmenting system.- scattering: heavy ion
- carbon
- gold
- critical phenomena
- gas: lattice
- temperature
- charged particle: multiple production
- multiplicity
- numerical calculations: interpretation of experiments
- 1 GeV/nucleon
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